Startups + Developers

The SF MusicTech Summit Startup Innovators Challenge is a competition which gives promising start-ups the opportunity to compete to showcase on stage at the SF MusicTech Summit!

The competition for the November 2015 Summit has not yet started . Stay tuned for further details! Please note that this competition will be for registered attendees only. One member of your team must be registered to attend the SF MusicTech Summit in November 2015 to be eligible to apply..

SF MusicTech Summit XVI Winners – Nov 11, 2014

Bandposters | http://www.getbandposters.comBandposters is a simple online solution that allows Bands to design, print, and ship tour posters and ship them directly to venues for every tour stop in 90 seconds or less. Jonathan Sexton, Mike Fabio, and Travis Vignion are all former musicians based out of Nashville,TN focused on doing one thing really well: getting posters delivered to venues for bands, on time, every time. No more sharpies, no more post office, no more hassles. Learn more at www.getbandposters.com

Soundslice | http://www.soundslice.comSoundslice makes interactive, web-based sheet music and guitar tablature. Our “responsive” music notation wraps to fit your device, and it’s got everything a musician needs to learn the tune — syncing with multiple source recordings/videos, slowdown without changing pitch, simple looping, transposition and more. It’s all done on the web, with no need to install anything. The goal is to be the best way to learn any tune.

We license this technology to companies that want to offer high-quality interactive music lessons, and we sell interactive transcriptions on behalf of indie artists, giving artists another source of income.

Pace DJ | http://www.pacedj.comPace DJ is musically optimized performance. Our patented application serves millions of Americans, helping them run in sync with their music and achieve their fitness goals. This is important to individuals, but also extremely important to insurers and employers since it relates to their costs. We have been recommended by the New York Times, Runner’s World, Health Magazine, and more, and are scaling up in partnership with leading health and fitness brands.

Gigstarter | http://gigstarter.com/Gigstarter is a new way to promote and sell tickets to shows. By eliminating the middleman, we connect fans and musicians like never before.

Traditionally, the venue is booked, the show is announced and then tickets are sold—Leaving fans with no say, and musicians with the pressure to fill the show.With Gigstarter this process is flipped–Sell the tickets then book the show. We help musicians target their fans, sell tickets and play the perfect venues. On top of that Gigstarter provides musicians with valuable fan data, highlight who and where their most passionate fans are.

CONDUCTR | http://www.conductr.net
Barcelona based startup Patchworks develops CONDUCTR, an app that controls music production software, through a multi-touch interface, on the iPad. It focuses on changing the live-performing experience, both for the musicians and the audience, as it gives a more engaging vibe because the artist can use it without watching the iPad.

As a MVP, the CONDUCTR app works as an Ableton Live controller for iPad. But since its conception its development was based on a strong foundation based on modularity and scalability. CONDUCTR is a free app with an in-app store. The user gets access to the basic features of the controller upon downloading. However, the user can purchases for additional modules as per need or expertise.

CONDUCTR it’s also a whole new approach to software control devices for touch surfaces, based on functionality, adaptability and intuitivity.

CONDUCTR is highly customizable because it is designed to cover each artist needs.
It is not just another controller: it is a reflection of its owner’s creativity.
And just like any artist’s creativity, CONDUCTR will evolve within time, growing with new preset modules that you will be able to add to your own configuration in order to make it even more YOU. MADE BY MUSICIANS FOR MUSICIANS.

Psyx Research, Inc | http://www.psyxaudio.comPsy(x) Audio was formed to address the digital audio market based on four core areas of proprietary innovation: Pyschoacoustics, Pre-Processing, Post Processing and Surround Sound. We develop the most advanced and reliable psychoacoustic technologies in the world today, used in satellite radio broadcast, radio, television, digital cinema, music, gaming and consumer electronics.

Psy(x) Audio delivers technologies, products and services at each critical stage of the ecosystem: Creation, Distribution, and Playback. We work closely with the most influential Audio Scientists, Artists, Music Producers, and Engineers in the world to ensure that our technologies deliver the absolute highest quality of experience available.

Our portfolio of technologies include:

Psyx S(K)Y Surround:
A 3 Dimensional Audio platform that renders up to 256 channels in a hemispherical array, using our own proprietary methods of extracting and imaging height information. S(K)Y can uprender from a 2-channel source and is capable of being mixed and edited using a joystick controller. Most importantly, we are not reliant on metadata and is immune to the data corruption and loss of that information along the ecosystem, so we can stream, re-encode, record, etc and still deliver a 3D experience.

Additionally, S(K)Y’s image mapping editor enables the system to image perfectly regardless of aerial speaker placement, offering more flexibility than any object-based system on the market.

Psyx Mobile App:
Psyx is the world’s most advanced music player for iOS, powered by over 170 processes perfectly crafted to deliver an unparalleled listening experience in any environment. Welcome to portable luxury audio.

We developed the Psyx app after more than a decade of research and innovation in the areas of listening fatigue and compressed music. Compressed music causes hearing fatigue for a number of reasons and we have identified the 4 main areas of concern:

Dynamics, Image Width, Artifact Management, and Articulation.

Psyx Pre-conditioning:
The first versions of our pre-processing technology were deployed at the largest satellite radio broadcaster in the world. Over 450 million hours of content processed and running over 15 years.

Psyx pre-conditioning greatly improves the listening experience to the consumer, AND reduces bandwidth consumption by 300% percent with no required changes to your exisiting encoder or infrastructure.

Dialog Control
Psy(x) Dialog provides effortless control of dialog information within stereo audio. Whether news, sports, movies, or music, the clarity of dialog suffers in real-world, everyday listening environments. Psy(x) Audio addresses this by utilizing its own psychoacoustic models and spatial filters to selectively enhance or remove dialog from the content, even after it has been compressed. Whatever the environment, whatever the content, Dialog Enhance performs its task with ease. More info: www.psyxaudio.com

Lysn in (by Silent Storm) | http://lysn.in
Conceived by Silent Storm, America’s leading silent disco equipment provider and headphone event production company, Lysn in™ is the digital manifestation of our vision to enable anyone to enjoy a shared listening experience without barriers of amplified sound restrictions or the need for large sound systems.

Create A Party:
Lysn in is the world’s first app enabling anybody to connect any external audio source to their smartphone and broadcast the audio to friends. Easily connect your DJ gear to your smartphone through the lightning / 30 pin port or headphone jack and instantly stream music over a low-latency wireless network.

Seamlessly add tracks to your playlist from your music library, SoundCloud or Spotify.

Join the Party:
Join a shared Wi-Fi network or synch over a personal hotspot or cellular network and Lysn in to a local DJ’s broadcast for a perfectly synchronized, social listening experience.

The artist and track title being broadcasted to your phone will be displayed on your screen. You and everyone else who Lysns in will hear the same music at the same exact time.

There are two versions of the Lysn in silent disco app. The Wi-Fi synch version supports more audio sources while the cellular data synch version (3G/4G/LTE) enables you to synch up anywhere your phone has a signal – perfect for the beach, the park and even group rides

Phoncert | http://www.phoncert.comPhoncert puts the real time live concert audio in the earbuds of fans that can’t make the show allowing artists and venues to expand their reach beyond the physical location they are playing that night. Phoncert also archives the shows so artists can allow fans to relive the experience whenever and wherever…car, gym, home, walking down the street or the multitude of other places where one can listen to music from their mobile device. This aggregated cross genre archive provides an additional revenue stream via a premium upgrade for artists and venues to continue to monetize a live event well past the actual performance.

Light4sound | http://www.light4sound.comLight4sound is reshaping the sound of the guitar in a way that hasn’t happened since the 1930s. Our first product, the Opik, is a drop-in replacement for the traditional magnetic pickup. The Opik uses optical technology to deliver a broader and deeper frequency response, resulting in a richer, truer depiction of the guitar’s tone. With a variety of ways to program, customize and modulate the tone right as it comes off the strings, the optical guitar pickup will allow for a leaner configuration with more tonal range. The cost will be on par with existing high quality pickups and even eliminates the need to use metal strings.

The Opik has evolved over several years of development and testing, and takes advantage of a wide range of optical and physical properties to derive an impressive signal from off-the-shelf sensors. Light4Sound has four patents on the Optik technology.

The founders, Tor Lundgren and Lee Haddad, bring together experience in music, hardware design, optics, intellectual property, and startups and can also whip up a very impressive Sazerac cocktail, when necessary.

Jamendo | http://www.jamendo.comJamendo, the world’s largest free music website (with over 450 000 tracks from 150 countries and 200 million downloads), is the link between artists who want to share their music and audiences around the world, both private and professional.

Jamendo grants free music downloads for web users, while at the same time providing revenue opportunities for artists through our Licensing platform, which sells licenses for music synchronization and background music.

Axwave is the leading platform for automatic content recognition and committed to creating world-transforming sound innovation. Its exclusive technology brings people closer to the music they love. Axwave developed an automatic recognition technology that lets mobile users identify millions of songs without having to press one button. Its mobile app, GSOUND, lets users discover songs they listen to while in a car, at a bar, at the movies or at a club. The automatic discovery allows users to later review what they’ve listened to and interact with all tagged songs. In addition, besides recognizing music, Axwave is able to identify movies and live TV as well. It offers this innovative technology as an SDK to other app developers.

Internet has opened new doors for music and fans. Every day, there is always more music out there and music fans are left with an increasing proliferation of services and data. As music lovers, we are literally swimming in music and, at the same time, drowning in music services. This is where Blitzr comes in. Blitzr is a free, artist friendly and universal music platform that allows music addicts to take advantage of the web in a whole other way.

At Blitzr we rely on semantic technologies to unify and to bring order to music. Blitzr combines the different flavors of all the existing dispatched music services, data and media into a new single and user-friendly interface.

Backed by a semantic search engine and a universal metaplayer, Blitzr offers a 360 degrees perspective on music (infinite listening, discographies, biographies, news, events and all available contextual data). Blitzr features also the world’s largest music databases, new discovery & recommendation tools and the first price comparison service dedicated to music (recordings, live tickets, merchandising…).

Fantrotter is a ticket and travel search engine that enables fans to view the schedules of their favorite bands, festivals, sports teams, performers etc (whatever or whoever they are a fan of), and quickly find the best deals on tickets and travel arrangements to get them to the event and back.

This one-stop-shopping site coordinates current ticket prices for each event with flight, hotel and rental car options, calculating an estimated grand total for the entire experience. Fantrotter makes it fast and easy to compare prices and make purchases from popular ticket and travel providers for practically any ticketed event in the world.

With the “Fantrotter Travel Revenue Share Program”, bands, festivals and teams can make money from every airline ticket, hotel reservation and car rental their fans shop for. Partners simply install the Fantrotter website widget and Facebook app to start earning money from travel.

The program is risk-free: No cost to join, no manual work to be done (such as with putting together travel packages), and at any time partners can simply remove the tools to stop participation. The program kicked off in January 2014 and partnerships are now launching.

FindMySong is an online music collaborative platform for musicians around the world to network, create music projects and manage their copyright all in one place. We aim to become the go-to platform for musicians to create better music and engage their fans efficiently.

Fingertip Maestro is a new musical instrument for iOS, which allows anyone to instantly create beautiful music. We took a piano keyboard re-arranged the notes into a color-coded grid, which is easy or intuitive to play. Just tap slide & play! The Android version will be released in summer, and based on current numbers we expect to have 1 million downloads by the end of 2014.

Gigwell is the first cloud based DJ booking platform that integrates end-to-end workflow automation for booking and management agencies. We provide a simple solution to manage all artist bookings, track payments, negotiate contracts, talent availabilities, and track revenue goals. So put an end to searching for gig contracts, signatures, and making those painful last minute trips to the bank for wire transfers. Gigwell lets you be more efficient and work smarter, not harder.

Gideen helps 900 million music makers worldwide to monetize their songs and recorded music. By opening up a secondary music market for 650 million contract-free songs with no or just little income and no place to go, Gideen gains co-ownership of these assets and is matching this music with 100 million daily monetization opportunities.

Gideen innovates and introduces crowd-sourced marketing and exploitation, highly motivated by allowing everyone to buy into future music revenue streams for as little as $29 (gift size). Gideen also streamlines complex licensing rules down to 4 “all-you-can-eat” price models and shortens the “time-to-deal” from weeks to under 2 minutes. That opens the door for the urgently needed mass-licensing market.

High-quality mastering has always been an expensive black art that was affordable to few and technically achievable by fewer. LANDR.com’s online mastering tool is here to make high-quality mastering accessible to everyone.

Using big data, machine learning and intelligent systems, we’ve been able to create instant mastering that rivals top studios at a fraction of the time and cost. Our system recognizes the genre of your music, creates a sonic fingerprint of your mix and delivers a unique master that’s specific to your taste. Plus, all of this happens in less time than it takes to listen to an average song.

Meludia is the 1st fast-track program to develop music abilities through sensations. It is an online game, which makes you hear and integrate music notions step by step. No theory, no instrument. Regardless of age or level.

For musicians in the making, it is the most simple, efficient and pleasant way to start music. Meludia helps you play an instrument “by ear”. It improves your pleasure out of listening and your motivation to learn, practice and progress.

For confirmed musicians, Meludia provides the big picture of your level on music fundamentals. And it will enable you to continuously progress on all dimensions of music. Come and test Meludia now on www.meludia.com

RighTune creates emotional connection that drives commerce by playing personalized background music on websites and applications. We have over 700 customers actively use our service with millions of visitors that hear our music and we generate revenues. On average we increase in 15% the websites’ business performance.

Currently, only the sight sense participate in the online world. Our big vision is to utilize the hearing sense into the overall online experience. Our music creates a subtle, ubiquitous ambiance that adds a deep emotional dimension to a site’s content and directly impacts users’ behavior and increases staying time, brand loyalty and revenue. In fact, righTune takes the widely-accepted concept of in-store music used and leverages it for the online world. While playing music, we track users’ behavior and engagement level on the website. We use big data, behavioral, machine learning algorithm that continually updates the music for new website’s users in order to maximize business results.

Vow smart headphones is the world’s first true smart headphones. Its 3G+WiFi modules allow users to listen to music online and offline whenever and wherever. Not only does it offer high quality powerful sounds, with the embedded messaging apps, you can also chat with other fans and friends. Vow smart headphones used a very unique detachable touch-screen design, so our users would have a better user experience.

Below are the winners of the Startup Innovators Challenge at SF MusicTech Summit XIV on October 1, 2013:

Music begins with playing an instrument or singing. But musicians crave playing with others and experiencing a richer world of sound that is engaging and fun. The problem is, it’s logistically difficult and costly to play with others. Hiring just one musician can cost over $50 an hour. So, people end up practicing alone most of the time, even at the professional level. A necessary evil, you say? Well, unfortunately 90% of kids quit studying music by age 15 because they hate practicing alone.

We have created Cadenza, an app that empowers people to make music with the full, lifelike sound they need, whether it’s an orchestra, band, or other group. Unlike any other solution, Cadenza listens to the musician, anticipates their every move, and synchronizes a real orchestra or band recording to fit their expression in real time. Cadenza transforms solitary practice into a fun fantasy. Just press play and you’re on stage with an orchestra that seems to read your mind!

Tutti Dynamics has developed an interactive video platform that enables users to play music with master musicians and share their performances with friends and teachers. Tutti Music Player™ is available on iPhone, iPad, Mac and PC. Early adopters include jazz legend Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Berklee College of Music, Tulane University and 300 high schools.

Tutti Music Player™ combines multiple user-controlled video and audio streams of masters’ performances with an educational toolbox that allows users to dissect the performance and analyze the master’s technique, access sheet music, and loop sections of the song. The platform also creates a collaborative and social environment so that users can create and share with others.

AudioCommon is a team of musicians and hackers redefining the way music is created in today’s interconnected world. Our platform is an online music and media collaboration bridge for music professionals that brings GoogleDocs (real-time collaboration) and BaseCamp (project-based file structure) functionality to the Music Industry. AudioCommon gives users the ability to: build geographically-separated, project-based teams; communicate securely with teammates; collaborate in real-time over audio during early stages of the creative process; and engage fans in new ways via multitrack content. We are AudioCommon, and we are “empowering creation.”

Musicinfo is the search engine of music. We aggregate information about bands, artists and music creators from all around the web, and present it in a user friendly manner on one page. Our database is already one of the largest on the web, with over 40 million tracks by over 3.5 million artists. Our goal is to provide the most extensive database of lyrics, reviews, videos, discographies and much more to the fans, for free.

Upbeet Games creates apps for music education, music creation and jamming. We turn music listeners into music players!

Cookie Beats was designed by music technology teachers at Beatshop Labs, a school for music technology sponsored by Propellerhead Software (makers of the Figure app and Reason) . It takes inspiration from music theory software, Music Ace and popular music games.

The first product from Upbeet is an educational music game for kids called Cookie Beats. Unlike other music games where you’re merely tapping along to a song, Cookie Beats gives you full control of a drum machine sampler and guides you from basic quarter notes to full beats! Apply the skills you learn from Cookie Beats to reading music notation, playing a real drum machine and composing music on a sequencer/digital audio workstation.

Tunespeak is a loyalty platform for bands. It empowers bands to create contests online, identify and reward their most loyal and influential fans. Tunespeak tracks meaningful fan activity through popular social media, streaming and fan sites. Bands dream up prizes and fans earn points when they listen to music, watch videos, view photos and share it all with friends on Facebook and Twitter.

SyzzleSoft Inc. is a Sausalito, CA startup developing Syzzle™, the first global rating system that takes the guesswork out of live music. Syzzle combines deep data analytics with the wisdom of the crowd to create a dynamic rating index that tracks over 100,000 performing artists worldwide. It’s like Yelp for live music, only cooler and a lot more engaging. In the same way Yelp disrupted the restaurant industry, Syzzle has the potential to disrupt the music business, opening the door to exciting new fan engagement and monetization opportunities.

Talent deserves more than a like.
Digital reward infrastructure for artists on the web. Moozar’s mission is to create a new source of revenues for artists who communicate their work on the web and social networks . . . through a Reward Link service that allows users and fans to easily give monetary contribution right where they enjoy the music (video/article/graphic/photo/etc). The Reward Links are generated for free, do spread with the works when shared, and are aggregating all the stats in a single dashboard. We provide the Internet’s micro sponsoring that support creation!

We love guitar. But we’re all too familiar with the alt-tabbing, pausing, dragging the seek bar, and frustration involved in learning a new song. With Tabless, guitar tabs and songs are synchronized, so you can play your favorite songs hassle-free. The best part? Tabless works with any text tab you can find on the web.

Loudr is a direct-to-fan, pay-what-you-want digital music platform with built-in cover song licensing, content bundling and real-time sales.

How to engage the person in their care is a big problem for dementia caregivers. As a social worker working in the field, I have found familiar music to be one of the most powerful ways to positively engage a person with Alzheimer’s or other dementia. Familiar music can help with apathy, anxiety, depression, agitation. It can also cause the person to speak again, and to access memories. This is supported by multiple research studies and other lower tech initiatives such as the Music and Memory program. With that knowledge, I have developed Carenga, an iPad app for caregivers that maximizes the engagement possibilities of familiar music. The app makes it easy for caregivers to search for music and create playlists, regardless of the other person’s cognitive abilities. It also provide simple tools to support interactions around the music: easy to read sing along, photos to enhance memories for each song, music trivia, and video to record, play back and share special moments with the music. The current version of the app relies on Spotify API for music streaming and lyrics.

tappr.tv is the first Creative-Commons digital dance platform. With tappr.tv on your iOS device, you can pick a song from your music library and then pick from over 100 “wands”. Then while the song is playing, you can tap, swipe, and swirl your fingers to “dance” along to the song, producing highly dynamic kinetic visuals on the screen. You can record your dance using multiple layers, and publish it to a social network where others with that song can watch and dance along.

ZT has created the world’s most powerful ultra-compact guitar amplifiers (a stage-volume capable amp weighing less than 10 pounds – our Lunchbox amp has already gained fans worldwide and sold over 10,000 units with very little marketing support). More info: http://www.ztamplifiers.com

Below are the winners of the Startup Innovators Challenge at SF MusicTech Summit XIII on May 28, 2013:

FliqqFliqq is a soon to be launching mobile solution that allows you to form location-based groups for sharing content with people you meet in the real world, making it easier for people to connect with each other. For instance, lets say you go to a tech happy hour and you don’t know too many people. Suppose you want to share the picture you just took with everyone without having to ask for numbers or emails. With Fliqq, you can snap the picture and with just one swipe, send it to everyone’s phone synchronously. Furthermore, only a single person needs the app for the entire group to experience the “magic”. Fliqq also has a social platform that makes real-time shared experiences around media possible for artists and brands.

Wimbo MusicWimbo Music gives people the power to control the individual instruments and vocals that make up there favorite songs. Wimbo Music has specially formatted songs broken down into individual stems that are played through Wimbo’s user friendly mixer.

OvelinOvelin is changing the way how people learn to play a musical instrument. Our online game GuitarBots makes it fun, addictive and motivating to play the guitar. Played directly in your browser, it uses the built-in mic of your PC or Mac. Guitarbots listen to what you play on your REAL guitar and gives you instant feedback. The game currently has over 300 levels that are suitable for guitarists of any skill level, from complete beginners to hard-core shredders. Anyone can start to play for free at www.guitarbots.com

ThinkplayThinkplay thinkplay is building the first software that allows musicians to build, perform with, and sell fully customizable ePedals. thinkplay ePedals are unlike any type of ‘effects pedal’ musicians have used before.

Traditional pedals house sounds such as distortion, echo, and flanger. The virtual ePedal houses a mapping of audio samples, video clips, and effects which can be triggered in real time, and shared with musicians of various instruments. EDM on a guitar, hip-hop on a banjo, and techno philharmonics are all now possible.

Crowd AlbumCrowd Album which solves a pretty simple problem: Lots of photos are taken at concerts and shows, but the problem is the artist will probably never see them because they’re hard to find. Crowd Album automagically finds these photos and pulls them together into one gallery that can be easily shared by the artist/event promoter/organizer.

What’s cool about the albums is that they’re made up of your TRUE VIRAL MARKETERS – people who spent time/money to go to your show, they created content about you, then spread it to their networks. These are the people you really really want to connect with – and Crowd Album helps you find and connect with them and their content.

Soundkeep
ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC IS ON THE RISE
In the past couple of years Electronic Dance Music, or EDM, has risen out of the underground to become the top most favored genre of the modern generation. EDM has become the new Rock and Roll, but with an even lower barrier for entry for fans to get involved. No longer do you need a guitar, drumset, or amps. Anyone with a computer and an internet connection can participate, and they are, at an increasing rate.

THE PROBLEM
The problem lies in the derivative nature of the artform. EDM songs are made by remixing or sampling pieces of existing songs. Since nearly all songs are copyrighted, most EDM songs are infringing copyright by sampling them. Paying the licensing fees to publishers and record labels for a single song easily costs tens of thousands of dollars, which is prohibitively expensive for all but the most successful musicians.

THE SOUNDKEEP SOLUTIONSoundkeep plans to solve this problem by creating an Open Source Music community. By creating a place where a musician can release music in stem/sample form through Creative Commons to the greater community of musicians, we can build a large body of license free content. This content can then be freely sampled and remixed by the community without the fear and liability of a lawsuit with a major label. We can’t wait to break the licensing constraints on current artists and see the artform grow.

DubblerDubbler is more than an app. It’s an entirely new and highly addictive social platform for the voice. It lets users instantly record and share sounds of any kind with the growing Dubbler community, and their friends on Facebook and Twitter.We released Dubbler 4 months ago and it quickly caught on. There’s now a community of nearly 500,000 Dubblers – and its growing every minute.
Who’s using it?
Singers, rappers, radio personalities, comedians, birthday-wishers, thinkers, observers, and commentators from around the world.

How Dubbler Works?
Record up to 60 seconds of audio, then choose to add a voice filter (i.e. a cat, bird, cow, robot, etc…). Add a photo (or don’t) and then and then share it to Facebook, Twitter, and the Dubbler community.

Where can I find Dubbler?
Dubbler is available on iTunes and was recently featured as a Staff Pick in the Google Play Store.

MoodSnapMoodSnap is a mood and activity-based music discovery app that seamlessly connects you to music that matches your taste in any situation. The experience is “image-based music discovery,” allowing users to look at emotive photographs and tap whatever relates to them. A dynamic, crowd-curated playlist will instantly play songs associated with the mood of that photo. By displaying a spectrum of life’s emotions not in words, but in photographs, it allows users to feel what they want to hear, rather than search through exhaustive text-based categories. Moodsnap is for people who want a simple, intuitive, and more human approach to finding music that is relevant, personal, and fun.

Stagedom
A re-marketing platform for live events, helping entertainment brands to up-sell and connect with their top, PAYING customers. We take more than 2 billion missed engagement points a year and turn them to new revenue stream. Tapping into a $100 billion dollar business, Stagedom provides consumers a mobile 2nd screen experience for live events like music concerts, while providing the real time, real life, marketing, monetization and analytics tools to the entertainment industry. You can see a short “trailer” video of the platform here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nPoYhSnY8c

MelomicsMelomics‘ renown technology has boosted wild things, like the first album of contemporary music fully composed by a computer in its own style, recorded and published in 2012 by the London Symphony Orchestra. But we didn’t stopped there…

Infinitunes is the biggest repository of music in the world, comprising 1 billion songs of all essential genres, fully composed and synthesized by Melomics’ supercomputers.
All this music is available in audible (MP3/WAV), editable (MIDI/XML) and readable (PDF) formats. It can be browsed at melomics.com, and bought as a commodity ($0.99/KB of MIDI file), and the buyers gets all rights and authorship over the song.

Melomics@life adapts music to the activity and needs of the user, with zero-friction. It provides worldwide music services to the general public, to the hospitality industry (like music therapy for healthcare centers, ambient music for hotels and restaurants, or productivity music for big companies). The playlist adapts to your speed while driving, your movements on the bed, or your activity at work. It goes beyond services like Pandora or Songza, it’s the future: empathetic music.

Below are the winners of the last Startup Innovators Challenge at SF MusicTech Summit XII on February 19, 2013:

Plug.dj is an international community where people can enjoy music and videos together in a real-time socially interactive environment. Our users choose from a wide array of expressive characters, join any number of virtual rooms where they can discover and share music and videos, and communicate with international cohorts using our real-time chat translation. Whether, it’s music, comedy, movies, or live events, we’re a platform for group real-time digital content consumption.

Audience.fm uses data to measure fan engagement and create meaningful interactions between bands and their core fans by providing analytics and tools that help artists understand who their fans are and connect with them.

Bundio enables creators to set up their own direct to fan subscriptions. It’s built on Dropbox for drag and drop simplicity and allows artists to monetize anything – songs, videos, lyrics, mashups, etc, while continually engaging their fan base.

Every film and TV show utilizes music — from Hollywood blockbuster to low-budget reality TV series and everything in between. Literally billions of dollars are paid in licensing fees and royalties for this music. Yet the current tools and methods for managing this process are antiquated, disjointed, labor-intensive and manual. This creates extra and redundant work for the many individuals and business entities involved, and results in lost and delayed revenue for composers, music publishers, and record labels. It can even lead to costly litigation due to inefficiencies and errors in tracking music rights.Qwire solves this problem with its collaborative, cloud-based process which streamlines the selection, creation and licensing of all music in film and TV, thereby improving the timeliness and ensuring the accuracy of music royalties and license fees. Qwire (patent pending) is in use by leading composers, music editors, and video editors on major television shows and films, including Parenthood and White Collar.

Local Music Vibe is a live music marketplace for all venues and musicians everywhere. Our technology helps to grow local music scenes worldwide with tools for promoters, rewards for fans, and real-world interactions for sponsors.
We have grown to over 5,000 artists, venues and promoters around the world contributing thousands of shows daily. Our pageviews have grown over 200% in the last 90 days and we are generating recurring revenue in our test market of Marin County. We have recently integrated event data from Facebook and artist data from BandPage and we are introducing an exciting competition to recognize the most active music fans with real rewards offered by local businesses.

Liquid Notes is the world’s first intelligent music production tool: with the software having the knowledge of a professional composer for harmony, chords and scales, even an amateur can now make music that brings people to their knees. A professional can make complex changes to an arrangement with a few fingertips in real-time .. that hasn’t been possible before, and it enables finding new ideas rather than being stuck in a sequencer changing your arrangement one by one and in the meanwhile having forgotten the idea.
And, you can take your kid and have him / her play live to a piece on, say a MIDI-keyboard, which will sound perfectly flawless. Our software will simply correct the input in real-time and align it with the melody and harmony of the piece.Note: Liquid Notes is not a self-composing machine. You still need to have a basic understanding in music theory, otherwise it’s “garbage in, garbage out”, and it is you who puts together the emotional message of the music piece, not our software.

Flattr’s service makes it easy to support great web content online and for creators to earn money on their works without the need for subscription paywalls. We hope to incentivise sharing rather than punish it. Flattr uses embedded javascript buttons similar in style to Facebook “like” buttons but instead with money behind each click. Our service is free to join and users can both give directly to creators, as well as, receive funds on the content they produce. Each month flattr users decided how much funds (if any) they would like to contribute and at the end of the month those funds will be divided up equally between all the flattr buttons they click on across the web and then given out to those creators. For example, if a user decides to give out 10 dollars a month and during that time clicks or “flattrs” five “things” then two dollars will be sent to the owners of each thing at the end of the month. Flattr’s platform also allows for a pending payment or pending flattr that will be given to a creator once they sign up and link connected accounts, for instance with twitter, grooveshark, or instagram. Our buttons are dynamic in that if a user mouse-hovers over a clicked flattr button they’re given the option of sharing what they just supported, subscribing to flattr that “thing” every month for as long as they choice, or giving the creator a specific donation amount.

CratePlayer is a place to discover, collect, play and share your favorite online audio and video content. You can organize media from multiple online sources into curated collections we call “Crates,” like a crate of records. With CratePlayer you can gather your favorite songs and videos, play them continuously as playlists and share your Crates with your friends and the world.

“Talk about your music!” CueNotes is bringing back liner notes, but we’re making them social and crowdsourced. Listen to your music wherever you are, and see what other people are saying about songs, artists, and albums down to the specific moment in a song. Know where the best guitar solo in the world is? CueNote it at 1:34 into the song and share it with your friends. Maybe you want to share a fact about your favorite artist or a song they wrote, “This song is about an all night party the band attended in Cabo.” Learn about the music as you listen – hear from the artists as well, why they wrote the music, what the lyrics mean to them, who is playing bass, why your best friend loves this song – anything at all about the song and see it as you listen to it, popping up on your screen in bite-size chunks of info. Learn ten things about the new Foster the People song while in line at the bank. Read Usher’s interpretation of his first single and why he wrote it. A great, fun app for music discovery and lovers of music knowledge, for fans to share their love of music, and a whole new way for artists to interact with their fans in a more meaningful, deep fashion than current social media provides.

TRACT is a mobile and web social platform that helps users find nightlife and electronic dance music (EDM) events, purchase tickets, buy merchandise, get VIP access, make reservations, get access to guest lists, view photos from past events, and more. TRACT also provides a full venue management system with robust analytics enabling venue owners to get customer insights real-time and better monetize their users. Tract unites the DJ, the audience and the venue on a single platform, eliminating the biggest pain points and meeting the needs of all.

Nearly everything about how people consume media has changed thanks to technology. Now people can sift through hundreds of images per minute on Instagram, browse the lengthly Techcrunch headlines without interrupting the scroll, and condense their messages to whatever character limit is trending this year. But even in the face of this contraction, music cannot be squeezed. A song still must be listened to. That’s the fundamental reason why we created Whyd, a social music bookmarking tool to keep, play, and share all of the internet’s music from sites like YouTube, Vimeo, MP3 blogs, and Soundcloud, in one place, solving defragmentation of platforms to better enjoy music. It’s dead simple: add a track to your page from anywhere using the browser plug-in, organize your tracks into playlists, and play them all with no interruption on Whyd. Plus, every track added is a track shared, so music starts to get passed around very quickly for those who use Whyd for discovery. It’s like Pinterest for music, where you can find great tracks anywhere but put them in a convenient place to listen to and keep for later. Goodbye lost tracks and too many open windows, hello music freedom.

Fandrop is the best micro content sharing platform. Bands and brands could use Fandrop to curate amazing collections of their content and get the word out through their fans. Fandrop introduces “Drop it” technology, where users can cut out and highlight parts of a web page and collect all kinds of multi-media content, including music, video, and flash games. Using a proprietary algorithm, Fandrop is able to predict the content that is about to go viral. It can also promote the virality of such content to increase the reach to target audience. Marketers can then use these insights to create the marketing campaigns that deliver.

At mutu we have reinvented music video browsing. Discover Yourself with features inspired by Pandora and Spotify to create stations based on artist, genre, or friends.

We’re building a technology platform that combines both ticketing and a full marketing engine that allows event promoters to broaden the reach of their events and increase their attendance.

The Musigram App is, in short, the Instagram for voice. It’s a fun, simple, and creative way to add the musical emotions to everyday messaging. With Musigram, you can record a message that will be mixed with your favourite song. Then, you can share the result with friends, family and in your social networks. There is no limit for creativity, and potentially you can be heard by millions. Here are some samples for you to listen http://demo.nusonix.com/

The ultimate game for music lovers. The Lyricle app probes your musical knowledge by transforming lyrics from popular songs into word clouds. You can play friends or challenge unknown competitors to guess the song and/or artist from the cloud. Be warned: it’s harder than it looks.

moosify is all about people and music discovery – music is used as a filter to connect with new people around you and is a fun & easy place to chat, share and meet in real life. moosify is running cross-platform (iOS, Android, Spotify so far) and driving discovery, engagement and revenues for our partners.

Just Sing It is a free mobile game that lets users sing their favorite songs, apply voice filters to make them sound like rockstars and guess songs with other game players or share on Facebook and Twitter. Cooperative and social guessing nature of the game is combined with simplicity of singing into a mic – all recorded and listened to on iPhones and iPads. Just Sing It features 2,000+ favorite songs and top genres from music idols of all eras; voice changers with fun effects; “play and share songs” functionality on Facebook/Twitter with avatars dancing to groovy tunes. The game will be initially released in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and US on the iOS platform in February 2013.

Below are the Winners of the Startup Innovators Challenge at SF MusicTech Summit XI on October 9, 2012:

“Congratulations on yet another amazing event. You throw a great show, THE must-attend event in the industry. Congratulations once again Brian!”

Brian FelsonCD Baby/DiscMakers

“This was truly one of the best conferences I’ve ever been to.”

Tamara Conniff, Founder T-Star MediaTheComet.com

“The mayor should give you both [Brian & Shoshana Zisk] a key to the city for the entrepreneurship you are stimulating in SF with SF Music Tech and Future of Money and Technology – you two are individually and communally a stimulus package!”